"Consumerism is the new patriarchy. The beauty industry is the beast. Advert...

 

 

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"Consumerism is the new patriarchy. The beauty industry is the beast. Advertising constrains the..."

via maia medicine on 10/27/10

"Consumerism is the new patriarchy. The beauty industry is the beast. Advertising constrains the horizon of female aspirations, gendering their dreams before they're hatched. Girls, even when they are still a fetus in the womb, are the target of an unrelenting image assault. Pretty little girls is what this society wants and it gets it through a flood of erotically charged marketing that propagandizes half the population, and their parents, to sexualize femininity at an early age. Of course, boys get the message too. But their assigned role is as the aggressor party. Girls, on the other hand, are told that weak and vulnerable is sexy."

- Micah White (via chasingseafoam)

 

 

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